so i am 3/4 of the way through my planter project but i am so stoked with how they are turning out that i am going to post the current status. i still need to pick out the plants i am going to use (suggestions welcomed) and then plant them but that shouldnt take too long.

i built them a couple weeks ago and then my buddy caleb
was kind enough to paint them for me and damn did he do an awesome job. they turned out amazing and actually were pretty simple to build and didnt cost much. i cant wait till i have some nice greenery on my balcony and some well needed privacy. i will post some pics once it is complete.

this is one of empty cans afterward and caleb decided to spruce it up so i could hang it on the wall.

stumbled across an artist named questa from tokyo. he has a background in graff and paints with really cool florescents and uses black lights for effect. check out his flikr page for more trippy paintings.

so last week i posted about being at bonnaroo and how my friend hayden brought over 24,000 glowsticks to launch during the phish shows. well i had a 8 second crappy video of it shot sideways.

now he has posted some good videos of it. also if you are a phish fan it gives you a good amount of music from the show. check them out.

just got back from a long week of traveling…indy to north dakota to washington to nor cal. we lucked out with great weather the whole trip and a lot of fun along the way. even though i had to be at the track for some obligations throughout the weekend i got to stay in san fran with my buddy andrew and see old ohio roommate roger. it just so happened that mike (in town from chicago) and steve (in town from LA) were there too and it was awesome to get to hang out with everyone.

before i got to SF i spent a couple days in enumclaw wa which is a fun little logging town an hour outside of seattle. i really love the landscape up in the northwest.

the view of the pudget sound as we choppered over to the Bud distributor…

eyeing our landing…

this is the biggest fridge i have ever seen. this is an insane amount of beer and they told me that it would last 15 days. this wasnt even the half of it.

i had all day Friday to enjoy SF and we cruised all over the city visiting some cool sights and relaxing. we hit up “the bunkers”, the Golden Gate park rose garden, the DeYoung museum observation tower, and of course finished the day with some beers in dolores park. i finally ate one of the delicious Vietnamese sandwiches i always hear so much about and got some ice cream at bi-right. flavors: balsamic strawberry, lavender honey, and roasted banana.

these bunkers were built to protect the shores of california during world I and II. they used to have huge cannons mounted to them that could shoot ships 15 miles out to sea.

it was pretty windy…

we went into these weird tunnels but we didnt have a flashlight so we didnt get very far b/c everyone wussed out.

the golden gate park rose garden was in full bloom

view from above the park. you could see the whole city up here. it was amazing and free.

saw this crazy motorcycle at the race track.

saw this crazy car walking around the mission area

this was the bathroom at Lucky13 a bar we were at on saturday. it looks disgusting but for some reason it also looks really cool to me. weird.

my ride home.

our unexpected but welcomed extra passenger on the way home.

one of my favorite characters from the conan obrien show is definitely triumph the insult comic dog. this year triumph went to bonnaroo to make fun of smelly hippies and the musicians.

the beastie boys interview was one of the funniest things i have heard in a while. triumph to beasti boys: “could you possibly look more like 3 old jews. you look like a living pep boys logo”

Formula D New Jersey 2009 from Will Roegge on Vimeo.

here is a clever little chair that someone made and attached to a street sign. you can flip it up when it is not in use. doesnt look super comfortable but that could come in handy when waiting for a bus or something.

this past weekend i made the a very last minute decision to hit bonnaroo and man was it worth it. my buddy brooks made it happen as usual and rallied our trip together. billy also jumped on even more last minute and came with me after he spent a 12 hour overnight shift at the emergency vet. what a trooper.

the weekend went perfectly. no crazy thunderstorms like predicted. awesome shows. great friends. all around amazing time and glad that we made it work. highlights from the weekend included Beastie Boys, Girl Talk, and the late night set from MGMT.

we ran into brooks’ friend hayden who brought 24,000 glowsticks that i got to help launch during phish. its funny how the phish fans treat you like a super hero when you have that many glowsticks. i didnt take as many pictures as i should have but here are a few pics and two little videos.

the skies looked pretty threatening at times but no rain!

unloading about 10,000 glowsticks

mgmt

some cool graffiti around the festival

here is the red bull nascar team doing a pit stop in traffic in times square. that is a pretty clever stunt.

this past weekend i hit an east coast swing and visited philidelphia to visit my buddy andy, jersey for the formula drift event, and maryland for the vaughn gittin backyard bash.  all my northeast friends showed me an awesome time and their hospitality was much appreciated.  vaughn killed it on the track and got a podium finish at the formula d race in Wall NJ.

Ryan Tuerck’s car owner Gary Gardella put on super fun event called Throttle Thursday which combined two of my favorite athletes…drift racers and pro bmx riders.  DC Shoes sent out the best of the best pro bmx riders to get some rides in drift cars and then put on a demo at the local skatepark.  all of the pros were really good guys and were stoked on all of the drift cars.  Scotty Cramer, Daniel Dhers, Chad Kagy, Jeremiah Smith, Anthony Napolitan and more came out for the event.  they are no doubt the biggest names in BMX and it was great that Fuel TV came out to cover it.

to wrap up the weekend we spent sunday celebrating the vaughn and abby’s awesome house complete with huge gravel pit for baja truck jumping and rally car racing.  the place is a rediculous funland and we had a blast.

andy picked me up from the airport in his sweet freshly painted flat black minivan.  he did it all with about 40 bucks worth of spray paint.  came out sick.

cool old looking townhouse next door to andy’s house.

phili yo

we caught a Grizzly Bear show.  the show was pretty mellow but very good.

ryan tuerck doing an interview for fuel tv.

autograph session. daniel dhers, scotty cramer, vaughn gittin jr. chris forsberg above.

anthony napolitan front flipping up the step up.

Chad Kagy doing a stylish turndown.

a couple 12 year old kids waiting to drop in next to x games gold medalist daniel dhers. haha.

daniel dhers taught mariel how to ride a bike down a slightly slanted bank.

conrats on the 2nd place finsh JR!

rolling in the murdered out van with andy and hobo josh herron.

vaughn’s backyard of ridiculousness.

our sweet bonfire.

kevin and jinx playing the old toss the flaming box to each other game.

rockin out

as kevin passed out we gave him a wig beard.

ken followed up his extremely successful gymkhana video with this. he stepped up his game and the slo mo sections are rad.

such a good campaign by nike. hopefully it doesnt jinx the championships and lebron and kobe dont meet. not looking great for lebron right now.

**update** unfortunately lebron and the cavs didnt pull it off. i really wanted to see the lebron and kobe match up. this is a reminder to all my poor ohio friends that ohio sports especially cleveland teams will forever disappoint you.

my buddy smoovebert posted a video from charlotte based agency booneagency. they have created their whole website using interactive youtube video. it is such a clever, simple idea and it turned out great. it shows that they are really “thinking outside of the box” and whatever other ad agency cliche word you want to insert here. its more proof that those huge agencies that companies pay too much money for are just lame and boring.

i have actually crossed paths with this agency a few years back through some nascar production with kk. after seeing this i want to do some more work with them. i like their style and its cool that they are holding down in charlotte nc.

watch the video below and also dig into the links. it is really funny.

stumbled across a site of a carpenter in Portugal who made the most amazing all wood vespa scooter.  Pretty cool stuff.

andy lapuka at DA productions put together one of his best short clips to date. this really shows what chris is doing with his car, hands, and feet during a run. such a good video.

HOT LAP: Forsberg Road Atlanta from Drift Alliance Productions on Vimeo.

here is will roegge’s latest drift cut from formula d long beach. such a stylish piece. keep up the good work will.

Formula D Long Beach 2009 from Will Roegge on Vimeo.